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Small F16 VR Cockpit


JeDa

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Hi,

Let me first introduce myself. I am from Europe, the Netherlands, so English is not my native language. I do make mistakes. I have some experience in home cockpits. This is my Cessna based cockpit.

Unfortunately I had to move and in my new house there’s not enough space for a full cockpit. So I demolished the cockpit.

 

But now I will start building a new cockpit. Because I dont have a lot of room, it has to be very small. Or it has to be possible to easily store and move it. Also, it will be a VR cockpit.

So my design requirements are:

- F16 cockpit

- Small, when stored it should be less than 0.5 square meter (about 3 foot by one foot). The complete cockpit including rudder pedals, vr-headset, computer, etc should fit in this space

- VR, so looks are not that important, alltough it must look nice

- Easy to move and transport. From stored to fully operational within maximum 5 minutes

- Fully functional, first version only working throttle, stick, rudder, mfd’s, icp and some switches such as the gear, brake and other

- Dimensions as close as possible tot he real cockpit

 

Compromises

- It seems to be impossible to fit a chair within this small space. So for now I will have to use a regular desk chair.

- 1:1 scale is also not possible so it will be a bit smaller

 

What do you think? Will this be possible?

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Anything is possible mate, you need to think about how much time you are prepared to design and build something like that.

 

its a bit of an open question to be honest, more like how long is a piece of string.

 

if you do start the project open a build thread im sure there are many that would benefit from your idea.

 

good luck! :)

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Anything is possible mate, you need to think about how much time you are prepared to design and build something like that.

 

its a bit of an open question to be honest, more like how long is a piece of string.

 

if you do start the project open a build thread im sure there are many that would benefit from your idea.

 

good luck! :)

 

Thanks! I started the project, if people are interested I can post more pictures or a video.

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I bet your good a puzzles lol!

 

Seriously though that is a touch of genius, you definitely want to get this one in some sort of progress thread or keep this one updated.

 

are you working to a budget also? i ask as you can get some excellent button boxes form DSD designs. I bought this one and use it as an ICP, flying in VR there is less of an issue about looking like the real thing but i have mine mounted right in front of me at chest height and it works a treat.

 

here is the link http://derekspearedesigns.com/p1p2.html

Im using the P2

 

I highly recommend the DSD stuff its top quality

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Thanks for the nice words. I have a very small budget. The cockpit so far (without the hotas) was less than 50 euro. The white ICP is my own work. I 3D printed it. It is fully functional.

 

When I have some money I ll check the DSD site. Thanks again :)

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Use the IPD function in the DCS settings, 54 ish is what I use. Even though my real world IPD is much larger. IPD=world scale in DCS.

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I made something similar... :)

:shocking::shocking::thumbup: incredible!! Any chance of getting some more details / drawings of your box? Having a similar problem I‘d love to get some more information / details from your solution. Are you selling drawings / plans?

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Thanks!

I do have some plans. I’ve said I will tidy them up and post them, but I haven’t had time.

Here’s the build thread.

Great! Thank you for the link! Is VERY interesting!!!

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Wow! That looks great!!!!

 

I made some small progress:

- I 3d printed switches and placed them on the panels. They are for now not functional. I did this to test if the locations match the VR cockpit

- For the same reason I also made the hand rail. I installed only the left

- I started building a prototype of the upfront panel including the mfds

- I painted the wooden frame white so it looks a little bit better

 

What do you think?

 

 

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I made some progress. I switched from vr to both vr and non vr. Also, for now I use F4toserial which for the non vr experiance only supports F4 bms. The succesor of f4toserial will also support dcs. Thats why i used bms for this short first test flight. The landing is terrible but i was just trying out if the pit worked.

 

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